#WritcoPoemPrompt41
Write a poem including as many of the following words (or variations on these words) as you like:
solecisms, connectome, recidivous, calico, performs.

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Locked in my body

I'll never forget how it happened
Collective shocks gripped my connectome
Every muscle in my body felt as stiff as stone
Solecisms were all that I could perform
Strength mustered to perpetuate
Odd and unusual twitchings of my tongue
Eventually all movement was taken from me

I have never felt so alone

Recently they realized that I could move my eyes
The only hope for my syndrome
Alas, this recidivous occurrence from left to right
Offered to me an escape from my usual humdrum

Now I spend my days in the same calico robe

This isn't where I belong

© Katherine Bernhardt